9 Responses

1. one nuclear fuel cell creates as much energy as 200 tons of coal or something like that

2. Yes, I would assume anything is cleaner then coal!

   With nuclear energy there is only water vapor given off from the cooling towers and the storage of the radioactive waist. However, There are breeder reactors that can enrich or “breed” the “spent” uranium into plutonium. It breed fuel by producing more fissile (capable of sustaining a chain reaction) material than it consumes. So imagine recycling one soda can and getting more and more from that one.

   “fission of an atom of uranium produces 10 million times the energy produced by the combustion of an atom of carbon from coal.”

   http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/nuclear-faq.html

   Now true, Water vapor is a green house gas; however it is easier to get out of the air then CO2 and other coal emissions (carbon monoxide CO, sulphur dioxide SO2, etc) and is less toxic.

   There is also the issue of emissions in the environment vs. radioactive waist. Melt downs like 3 Mile Island or Chernobyl, Ukraine. But this dose not happen on an everyday basics like coal. according to the department of energy, coal fired power plants can release more radioactive emissions then their nuclear counterparts. “Not much of a nuclear plant’s waste is released into the atmosphere, so the radioactive emissions from a coal plant easily surpass it.”

   http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99402.HTM

   Best of luck with the debate.

3. Yes, because the nuclear waste does not harm the environment if it is properly disposed while burning of coal can not be made eco-friendly..

4. ya it is cleaner than coal.it doesnt pollute air &it has aleast amount of waste

5. Yes, it is cleaner. More expensive, but cleaner.

   Neil; Water vapor is a greenhouse gas? Um, wrong. All the nuclear plants on the planet don’t produce as much in a day as is vaporized off the oceans in less than a minute.

   Water vapor = Rain ~ Rain = clean, potable water ~ Water = Life

   Nor was Three Mile Island a “nuclear meltdown”. There was a small release of some radioactive gasses, that’s all.

   Might wanna check your facts there, bud.

6. It is a cloudy issue due to life of the used nuclear fuel. It requires expensive transportation before and after use. Plus must stored in a secure facility

7. Ask the hundreds of thousands of people who got cancer from Chernobyl, I don’t think they’re worried about smog.

8. All energy sources are cleaner than coal, exempt burning tires.

9. Yes, nuclear is cleaner.
   For one, it is far more regulated than coal.
   Second it provides far more energy per unit weight thus reducing the mining impact.
   Third coal has substantial trace amounts of heavy metals (including Thorium) which are usually emitted rather than captured.
   Fourth carbon dioxide emissions are small and only created during mining.